The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-08-17
GENERAL MEMS NOTES.
Itsu,s o! Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

The Scullcr should be like the oyster,
quite at home in his shell.
Fourteen new cases of cholera and SIX
deaths have been reported at Malta.
The village Of Sandusky. Mich. was
nearly wiped out by q fire yesterday
Thomas J. Mooney who set fire to the
National Line steamer Queen has been de
clarcd to be insane
"A winning platform is what the Rich
moad Di<patHt telms the recent declaration
OF tic Virginia Democrats.
From nearly million members few
mouths ago, the Nights OF Labor have dc
creased to about six hundred thousand.
4 New York boy six years old drank q
pin II brandy the other day. 1t burnt out
his r:ie life in a few hours.
Judge Bond has again decided against the
North Carolina tax on nonresident drum
accs.
4 Havana dispatch says that since We'd,
ncs;!.v there have been indications OF cy-
clone southwest of that city.
The disaster to the rice crop on the Sa-
vannah river seems almost complete. Only
q few hundred acres escaped destruction.
Eains have been general in Iowa. Illinois
and Michigan, and the crops which, Z few
days ago. seemed lost, are now saved.
The Savannah river is up again 1T !il.
clsta. ard it is feared that the rise will
cqua: that which visited the city some days
age.
Smallpox ard yellow fever are raging
in iitvara Cuba. For July there were
l0t deaths ;;.om yellow fever and ll2 from
small poN
Mrs. Cleveland is making collection OF
New England moses and ferns for tie
adornment of the White House library al.
ter her return.
General Neal Dow, who is now in
Maine. thinks it morally certain that tho
Prohib,ionists will nominate q national
ticket next year.
Rain has visited the Milwaukee section
of Wisconsin, ending q sixty Gays croutL
which has caused q loss of thousands OF
dollars to the farmers.
Jerry PagcleS, murderer Of Samuel
kolin, and sentenced to be hanged on the
26th inst. at ST. Louis, committed suicide
in lis cell Monday night
A fire occurred in large warehouse il
Concord, n. H, yesterday. Eight mer
in the fourth story had to jump from the
windows, and all received severe injuries
Captain S. S. Brown. of Pittsburg. hay
in" made 500. 900 on Troubadou-, Thinks
it is about time to give the great race horse
rest.
Now that the wall paper pool has plas
tcre,i the country over with japanese de
sigrs. it announces that these must give
way 10 oriental patterns.
During fire in St Louis on Wednesday
morning three tiremen were killed and foul
iniared by the fall of a wall. One OF TIC
injured will die.
They must have plenty of money up il
Connecticut. Twenty one thousand dollars
has lain unclaimed in q Hartford saving;
bank for twenty years.
The employees of Park Bros & Co., Of
Pittshur@, recently struck. After they
had lost $50, 900 in wages they wet back
to work just where they left off.
Tic hes. paid W, man journalist in ths
world i Mrs. Crawford. the we'll knowr
Paris correspondent. She earns 10000 q
year.
\ camp meeting at Neshaminy's Grove
near Philadelphia. on Tuesday drew TO
ge;her fully II, 900 persons. Twelve trains
fifteen huddred wagons and fortyone by.
I.,-C.1rs carried fine pycOrsIOrIsts
Fire in the packing house Of T. VI. Sir.
clai: & Co., Of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, &c
stroycd the slau"htering department and
tank room. Loss is $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
Charles Williams, who was confined in
the ill Of Logan county, w. Va, for the
murder Of James .Aldrich, surveyor Of the
couaty, few days ago, was taken from
the Jail Monday by citizens and hanged.
Mr.Jus,ice Gray is the only bachelor on
the Supreme Court bench. The justice is
bad man to fool with. It is said he once
sued coqUettish damsel for breach OF
promise.
The ::cst Polish newspaper ever printed
in America has been started in Buffalo. II
is ca!iss; the Oje=ysnn. \ years subscrir-
ton will be %iven to any American who
can pronounce the name Of the new journal.
Tue demand for President Cleveland is
becoming universal Even little Joe Fora
kcr who grew furious over the flag order,
has cooled down sufficiently to beg the
president to take in Ohio on his Western
trip.
Congressman Pat Collins, of Boston,
having safely passed the impcrtinent tory
spies al Glasgow, is now having high Old
time in Ireland Patrick is a gallant Irish
man and q true Democrat. He deserves
the ovatio:: lie is receiving.
The removal Of the iron bridge on tie
Pennsylvania Railroad across Cones:oga
Creek TO temporary timber supports forty
five feet distant. was made in fifteen min
utes. and in aa hour and twenty minutes
traffic was resumed.
Judge Reagan was q member OF the first
DemocratSc Convention ever assembled in
Texas. 1t was held in 1851. The Calves
ton Ee,c& is unkind enough to remark that
he mas been holding Office ever since.
At Wlnonc, Mlu0., the tent IN which the
Rev. Mcssrs Hosler and Schulz, Seven
Day Advcntists from Nebraska, were hold
iDg revival services, was attacked by q mob
of 200 Germans and Poles Sunday night
and pulled down.
The roof OF Chatterton's Opera House
at Springfield, H., fell in on Monday, pre-.
cipitatin@ six men to the ground The
loss is $50 00e Architects say the fall was
due TO shrinkage Of timbers, caused by
heat and dry weather.
NJ Matchevitch, Bulgarian foreign min.
lister, accompanied by Prince Ferdinand of